Dr Mark Zarb m.zarb@rgu.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Pair programming has several benefits when it is successfully used by students and experts alike. However, research shows that novice pairs find the necessary pair communication to be one of the main challenges in adopting this process. A set of industry-inspired pair programming guidelines have been derived and evaluated from qualitative examinations of expert pairs, with the aim of helping novice programmers communicate within their pair. This research describes a further evaluation of these guidelines with a number of student pairs, and demonstrates how novice pairs who were exposed to the guidelines became comfortable communicating with their partners.
ZARB, M., HUGHES, J. and RICHARDS, J. 2015. Further evaluations of industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. In Proceedings of the 46th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2015): keep connected, keep committed, keep computing, 4-7 March 2015, Kansas City, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 314-319. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677241
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
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Conference Name | 46th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2015): keep connected, keep committed, keep computing |
Start Date | Mar 4, 2015 |
End Date | Mar 7, 2015 |
Acceptance Date | Sep 5, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 7, 2015 |
Publication Date | Feb 24, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Mar 13, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 13, 2017 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 314-319 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677241 |
Keywords | Pair programming; Communication skills; Software engineering; Collaboration; Students; CS education research study |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2208 |
Contract Date | Mar 13, 2017 |
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